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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 1-2, Pages 67-72Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00253-002-1092-7
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Several bottlenecks in the alcoholic fermentation process must be overcome to reach a very high and competitive performance of bioethanol production by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this paper, a nutritional strategy is described that allowed S. cerevisiae to produce a final ethanol titre of 19% (v/v) ethanol in 45 h in a fed-batch culture at 30degreesC. This performance was achieved by implementing exponential feeding of vitamins throughout the fermentation process. In comparison to an initial addition of a vitamin cocktail, an increase in the amount of vitamins and an exponential vitamin feeding strategy improved the final ethanol titre from 126 g l(-1) to 135 g l(-1) and 147 g l(-1), respectively. A maximum instantaneous productivity of 9.5 g l(-1) h(-1) was reached in the best fermentation. These performances resulted from improvements in growth, the specific ethanol production rate, and the concentration of viable cells in response to the nutritional strategy.
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